Improvement in stove-lids for heating flat-irons



G. R. MOORE. v STOVE LID FOR HEATING FLAT-IRONS No.177,069. v Patented. May 9,1876.

; UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

'GEOBGE R. MOORE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

lM PROVEMENT IN STOVE-LIDS FOR HEATING FLAT-IRC DNS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 177,069, dated May 9, 1876,- application filed April 3, 1876.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEO. R. MOORE, of the city and county of Philadelphia, in the State ofPennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Stove-Lids for Heating Flat-Irons, which improvements are fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing.

The object of my invention is to provide a lid suited to ordinary cooking stoves and ranges, but difi'ering from the common ones by being exactly fitted for use in heating flatirons, by which I aim to economize time and fuel, and to relieve the stove or range from the extreme heat required with the ordinary.

lids to heat them.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of an ordinary stove-lid, modified as required, and containing my invention, with a flat-iron shown also in position for heating. Fig. 2 is an axial view of the same.

A B D are but one simple cast-iron piece,

changed in respect to all its points of contact with the boiler-hole of the stove, and containing B, which is a flat-iron-shaped, open-topped, and bulged-bottomed receptacle for the flatiron 0. D is simply the common shelvinggroove for use by the. griddle-lifter. a a a are apertures for allowing air to pass down upon the fire, and to check its burning when the flat-iron is not in the receptacle. Of course the flat-iron, when in place fior heating, shuts off external air from these openings.

I make the receptacle B to fit the fiat-iron as closely as convenience will allow, so as to excludeall circulation of air about the face side and lower part of it. .I also preferably bulge the bottom of the receptacle B, so that heat expansion will never raise it to touch the iron or disturb it in its close-fitting rest upon its border.

I aim by all means to cut off allcurrents of air about the iron to be heated. I also strive to reduce the extent of iron plate going into the fire, as a shield to the fiat-iron, all that is possible.

I am well aware that flat-iron-heating pans have long been used on stoves and ranges over the same holes as ordinary lids but as heretofore made they do not accomplish, to the extent I desire, the object I have named, in part, at least, because they always present to the fire some portion of their lower surface not entirely covered by flat-irons; therefore they are always unevenly heated, and soon wrinkle and crack, so that air-spaces are made under and about the iron; but with my device,it' the central portion (the bottom of the receptacle) bulges by expansion it does no harm, and if it melts out, still the fiat-iron cuts off all passages of air to the fire, and only becomes the quicker heated. In fact, the bottom of the receptacle B in my device is not an essential part of it, excepting only a sufficient inward flange to keep the flat-iron in place.

It may be observed in the drawing that the fiat-iron shown is smaller than it need be; but still it is of the same shape as the receptacle.

I do not wish to be restricted to an exact fit, though it is of the nature of my invention to have it as nearly so as practicable and convenient.

I claim- 1. The within-described one-piece casting, consisting of the range or stove lid, provided with the flat-iron-shaped and open-topped receptacle, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth. I

2. A range or stove lid provided with a flatiron-shaped depressed receptacle, extending down to any desired depth, and havjng a bulged bottom, substantially as and ibr the purpose herein shown.

3. A range or stove lid providedwith a flatiron-shaped depressed receptacle, extending down to any desired depth, and having one or more apertures, a a a, through it, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

GEO. R. MOORE. Witnesses:

J. PLANKIN'ION, 1

RIcHD. MOOAMBRIDGE. 

